NEIME Research Project Overview

National and Ethnic Identities in Music Education

Purpose:

The NEIME stream of research offers cross-cultural investigations into the role of ethnic identities within national systems of formal and informal music education. Conditions associated with the ever-increasing globalization of music - specifically, changing patterns of migration and popularization of information technologies - have given rise to a new sense of urgency in terms of the need to better understand how music functions as a profoundly meaningful emblem of identity in contemporary multicultural societies. This project seeks to rigorously document the processes by which music is used for the construction of ethnic and national identities, and how musical experiences may cultivate an array of attitudes, ranging from nationalistic patriotism to empathetic cosmopolitanism. Critically underpinning the conception and implementation of this project is a fundamental recognition that such musical practices may only be meaningfully understood when considered in terms of both their historical and international contexts.

Profile of Principal Investigator:

David G. Hebert, PhD, is a Professor of Music with the Sibelius Academy (SibA) in Finland, where he mentors doctoral research and contributes to the departments of music education, folk music (ethnomusicology), jazz studies, and music technology. At SibA, he has recently been appointed Academic Coordinator of the new Master of Global Music Program, offered in a collaboration between music institutions in four Nordic nations. In 2009 he is also a Visiting Research Scholar with Nichibunken, a division of Japan's National Institutes of the Humanities, with a summer residency in Kyoto. His previous academic appointments were with Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), Tokyo Gakugei University (Japan), Te Wananga O Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Boston University (USA). With graduate degrees in both ethnomusicology and music education, Professor Hebert has served in editorial roles for several scholarly journals in the field of music, and has writings published (or in press) in over 15 refereed journals and 10 books. He has recently been elected Chair of the Historical Ethnomusicology special interest group of the international organization Society for Ethnomusicology.

Implementation:

This research is both multi-phased and multi-faceted in methodology, calling for a synthesis of approaches from cultural sociology and historical ethnomusicology. Projects proposed within the NEIME framework will be coordinated and supported through relationships established via preexisting international networks, specifically Nordplus-funded programs, such as the Glomus Network (which is launching a new Master of Global Music Program in 2010, in collaboration between institutions in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland) and the Nordic Network for Music Informatics, Performance, and Aesthetics (NNIMIPA), as well as the Historical Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group of the Society for Ethnomusicology.


David G. Hebert, PhD
Principal Investigator
Professor, Sibelius Academy, Finland

Relevant Writings:

Hebert, D. G. & Kertz-Welzel, A. (Eds.) (book proposal, in review/redevelopment). Patriotism and Nationalism in Music Education. [contributors: Simon Keller, Jane Southcott, Kari Veblen, Ambigay Raidoo Yudkoff, Carlos Abril, CheeHoo Lum, Eugene Dairianathan, Amy Beegle, Wai-Chung Ho, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, and David G. Hebert.]

Hebert, D. G. (forthcoming). Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools. Dordrecht and New York: Springer press.

Hebert, D. G. (in press, 2010). Ethnicity and Music Education: Sociological Dimensions. In R. Wright (Ed.), Sociology and Music Education. Aldershot: Ashgate Press.

Hebert, D. G. (2010). Educating Professional Musicians for a Multicultural Society: Emerging Issues and New Developments. In proceedings of Orally Transmitted Music and Intercultural Education, symposium offered by EU Culture Initiative Music, Orality, Roots, Europe (MORE) at Cité de la Musique, Paris, France (December 3-4, 2009) [http://www.music-orality-roots.eu/sites/default/files/MORE-Symposium1-HebertD-EducatingProfessional.pdf].

Heimonen, M. & Hebert, D. G. (2010). Pluralism and minority rights in music education: Implications of the legal and social philosophical dimensions. Visions of Research in Music Education, Vol. 15.

Campbell, P. S. & Hebert, D. G. (2010). World Beat. In W. M. Anderson & P. S. Campbell (Eds.), Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, Vol. 3 (third edition). Lanham, MD: Rowman-Littlefield Publishers.

Hebert, D. G. (2009). Rethinking the Historiography of Hybrid Genres in Music Education. In V. Kurkela & L. Vakeva (Eds.), De-Canonizing Music History. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 163-184.

Hebert, D. G. (2009). Musicianship, Musical Identity: Meaning as Embodied Practice. In T. Regelski & J. T. Gates (Eds.), Music Education for Changing Times: Guiding Visions for Practice. Dordrecht and New York: Springer Press, pp. 39-55. (chapter preview available on Google Books).

Hebert, D. G. (2008). Alchemy of Brass: Spirituality and Wind Music in Japan. In E. M. Richards & K. Tanosaki (Eds.), Music of Japan Today. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.236-244. (based on the Music of Japan Today symposia).

Hebert, D. G. (2008). Music Transculturation and Identity in a Maori Brass Band Tradition. In R. Camus & B. Habla, Eds. Alta Musica, 26. Tutzing: Schneider, pp.173-200.

Hebert, D. G. (2008). “Suisougaku no Bunkateki Henyoh: 1924nen Ni Tokyowo Otozureta Maori-zoku Gakudanno Baai,” (tr. Transculturation of Wind Band Music: The Case of a Maori Band in Tokyo, 1924). Japanese Band Directors Association Journal, Vol. 14 (pp.26-36).

Hebert, D. G. (2008). “Music Transmission in an Auckland Tongan Community Youth Band,” International Journal of Community Music, Vol. 1, No. 2 (pp.169-188) [http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/doi/abs/10.1386/ijcm.1.2.169_1].

Hebert, D. G. (2007). “ Kokusaiteki Shitendemiru Nihonno Suisogaku,” (tr. Japanese Wind Bands in International Perspective). Japanese Band Directors Association Journal, Vol. 13 (pp. 35-46).

Phoasavadi, P. & Hebert, D. G. (2006). “Celebrating Maori and Thai Music Magic: Implications of World Music Collaboration,” Research in New Zealand Performing Arts, Vol. 1.

Hebert, D. G. (2006). “Rethinking Patriotism: National Anthems in Music Education,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Arts Education, Vol. 4, No. 1 (pp. 21-39).

Hebert, D. G., (2003). “Lessons from India: Globalization’s Implications for Music Education,” Journal of the Indian Musicological Society, Vol. 34 (pp. 38-46).

Hebert, D. G., (2001). “The Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra: A Case Study of Intercultural Music Transmission,” Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 49, No. 3 (pp. 212-226).

Hebert, D. G. & Campbell, P. S., (2000). “Rock Music in American Schools: Positions and Practices Since the 1960s,” International Journal of Music Education, Vol. 36, No. 1 (pp. 14-22).

Relevant Presentations and Scholarly Activities

Chair, Historical Ethnomusicology special interest group session, 2010 Annual Meeting (55th) of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Los Angeles, California (November 11-14, 2010).

Paper presentation "Whither Hypermusicology?: Ethical and Epistemological Issues in Historical Ethnomusicology," Musicology in the Third Millennium, international symposium, Seinajoki, Finland (March 18, 2010).

Session Chair, "Emerging Nationalist Discourses in Art Music", Society for Ethnomusicology 54th Annual Conference, Mexico City (November 18-22, 2009).

Invited Chair, Annual Meeting of Historical Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group, Society for Ethnomusicology 54th Annual Conference, Mexico City (November 18-22, 2009).

Planning committee meeting, Nordic Network for Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics (Nordplus-funded), Helsinki, Finland (November 16, 2009).

Visiting Lecture, Music in New Zealand, for ethnomusicology program at University of Tampere, Finland (November 4, 2009).

Planning committee meeting, Nordic Master of Global Music, GLOMUS, coalition of Nordic higher education academies (Nordic network for exchange in global music and related arts), Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmo, Sweden (October 27-30, 2009). Sponsored by Nordplus.

Guest Lecture, "Easternization and Music Education", and discussion of individual research projects for graduate music education program (organized by Masafumi Ogawa), Yokohama National University, Japan (August 26, 2009).

Guest Lecture for graduate music education program (organized by Lucy Green) "Creativity and Hybrid Genres in Music Education," University of London, Institute of Education (June 15, 2009).

Lecture on "New Music Technologies in Japan and the USA," Nordic Network for Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics (Nordplus-funded), University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark (March 29-April 5, 2009).

Paper presentation with Marja Heimonen, "Pluralism and Minority Rights in Music Education: Implications of the Legal and Social Philosophical Dimension," Beyond Musicology - 13th Annual Finnish Musicology Symposium, University of Turku, Finland (March 26-27, 2009).

Guest Lecturer, "On Maori Music: Contemporary Genres and Practices," World Music Lecture Series, Musicology Department, University of Helsinki, Finland (February 16, 2009).

Hebert, D. G. Keynote Lecture-"Thoughts on How Research in Music Education Approaches Music", International Conference of the Nordic Network of Research in Music Education (NNMPF), Orebro University, Sweden (January 20-23, 2009).

Hebert, D. G. Keynote Lecture-"Globalisation in Music Education: Asian and American Perspectives," Globalization and Identity in Music Education international conference (funded by Nordplus, Nordic Network for Music Education, pan-Nordic coalition of conservatories), Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (November 15, 2008) [http://www.hib.no/studier/internasjonalisering/program/Musikkpedagogisknettverk.htm].